[olug] Cox and port 25

Bob McCoy bob at mccoy.net
Mon Jun 30 16:26:49 UTC 2003


That's not enough to be sure.  My at home (DHCP) address has a 21-bit
subnet mask.  One of the business addresses (static) has a 25-bit subnet
mask and the other has a 26-bit mask (different sides of Omaha,
different nets).

If you're DHCP, you're screwed.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Tim V - DZ 
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:04 AM
To: 'Omaha Linux User Group'
Subject: RE: [olug] Cox and port 25


:-)

The cox at work subscribers -

1x 68.13
1x 68.15
1x 68.96

two @home accounts
2x 68.15

all 5 can not use an SMTP server that is not on the Cox network.

all in omaha

-t

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Nathan Rotschafer
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:12 AM
To: jeffh at delasco.com; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox and port 25

68.13.0.0/16 is residential and 68.15.0.0/16 is business around here
anyway...

Nate

On Monday 30 June 2003 10:40 am, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> Bob McCoy said:
> > Tim V - DZ said:
> >> I 'support' three small business owners in the area...
> >> as in the rent space, have employees and such (not a little guy 
> >> working out of his basement kinda thing)
>
> Speaking for my self and last weeks events...
>
> > 1.  Do the businesses you support have a Cox Business (Cox at Work) 
> > account?
>
> YES
>
> > 2.  Have you verified that they are indeed using the correct IP
address?
> > All business accounts are statically assigned.
>
> How in the H3&&  would I know what are the correct IPs?  Where does
cox
> specify this block is for res and this block is for biz?  If I don't
have
> that there isn't any way to tell.
>
> > 3.  If so, have you called Cox Communications Business Services
> > (402-934-6000) to find out what the deal is?
>
> Nope, Best bet is not to talk to Cox.  They usually walk away from the

> phone convo and do something unwanted.  I tend to just work-around
them
> whenever possible.  In this case, I could change configuration instead
of
> waking the beast.
>
> -Jeff
> p.s. Bob, do you work or are you affiliated with Cox?
>
>
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